You (falsely) assume that all socioeconomic factors are equal. If there's a greater availability to medical care in Minneapolis, they will most likely diagnose a greater percent of cases than in Guadalajara. What about other dietary considerations?
All that your proposed study could possibly accomplish is the demonstration of a strong correlation but it would not (without additional controls) demonstrate causation.
Actually, you fulfilled Godwin's Law. (To paraphrase -- the number of posts in any given thread approaches infinity, the probability of an analogy to Nazism being mentioned approaches 1.) The only way that you may have, in fact, violated Godwin's Law is in your very mention of it, which may negate any "thread-ending" characteristics that an invocation of said law possesses.
That's not so much ironic so much as it is unfortunate. It's not an unexpected outcome (because people interested in a certain field would be expected to be most interested in developments in said field), but it is a sorry state of affairs.
Unlike traditional lacto-ovo-vegetarianism, veganism is more of an ideology than it is about food preferences. Veganism entails the conscious effort to prevent animal exploitation in any form. If, after a reasonable degree of research, you accidentally consume a product with trace amounts of gelatin in it, it doesn't change your philosophy / identity as a vegan. Buying leather, on the other hand, would contradict a vegan philosophy. It's about minimizing or eliminating animal suffering.
So yes, a vegan can engage in carnivorous behavior (unintentionally) and still be vegan. Because it's an issue of intent. On the other hand, it's a bit hard to have unintentional consentual homosexual sex. In that case, behavior is much more closely tied to identity. I understand your point, but action and intent are entirely different issues. By your logic, if a heterosexual man raped by another man, that would make him homosexual (in this causal sense).
I realize that I'm nitpicking, but it's an important distinction.
the thing about tripe, of course, is that it's very good to feed to your dog, cat or other familiar. just don't try eating it yourself -- you may get sick and dizzy.
Oh, but you've been here for so long, Mr. 774046! Please don't leave us!
(Not that I should talk with my abysmal 6 figure UID. This type of post will usually cue #10000 or so making a comment about my UID, followed by #1000, ad infinitum...)
B12 is naturally found from bacterial sources (i.e., animal liver, etc.) -- the main problem in getting it is that we are too clean. (Interestingly enough, people who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom will have less likelihood of developing a B-12 deficiency...)
And I'm pretty sure we can get Vitamin D by staying in the sun. So, from an evolutionary standpoint, it seems that vegetarianism (veganism, really) would be a primary method of food consumption.
You sit in front of a fan to move that encourage the evaporation (i.e., cooling process) of that hot sweat off your body by increasing the coefficient of conduction of air. Unless you have a sweaty fan, you should be moving the air away from it.
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And for that matter, I'm fairly certain there's a lot of people I know that don't even know what Second Life is.
Actually, there's a lot of people I know that don't even know what a first life is.
Having to play Call of Duty 3 is punishment enough.
(Note to Activision: Giving another entry in the franchise to Treyarch is a very, very bad idea.)
So imagine arriving late to the hotel the night before to your business meeting and being able to watch 24 in your hotel room 8 hours after it ran.
6 am is rather late. (...or 5 am, if you're counting from when the program began.)
You (falsely) assume that all socioeconomic factors are equal. If there's a greater availability to medical care in Minneapolis, they will most likely diagnose a greater percent of cases than in Guadalajara. What about other dietary considerations?
All that your proposed study could possibly accomplish is the demonstration of a strong correlation but it would not (without additional controls) demonstrate causation.
Actually, you fulfilled Godwin's Law. (To paraphrase -- the number of posts in any given thread approaches infinity, the probability of an analogy to Nazism being mentioned approaches 1.) The only way that you may have, in fact, violated Godwin's Law is in your very mention of it, which may negate any "thread-ending" characteristics that an invocation of said law possesses.
That's not so much ironic so much as it is unfortunate. It's not an unexpected outcome (because people interested in a certain field would be expected to be most interested in developments in said field), but it is a sorry state of affairs.
Unlike traditional lacto-ovo-vegetarianism, veganism is more of an ideology than it is about food preferences. Veganism entails the conscious effort to prevent animal exploitation in any form. If, after a reasonable degree of research, you accidentally consume a product with trace amounts of gelatin in it, it doesn't change your philosophy / identity as a vegan. Buying leather, on the other hand, would contradict a vegan philosophy. It's about minimizing or eliminating animal suffering.
So yes, a vegan can engage in carnivorous behavior (unintentionally) and still be vegan. Because it's an issue of intent. On the other hand, it's a bit hard to have unintentional consentual homosexual sex. In that case, behavior is much more closely tied to identity. I understand your point, but action and intent are entirely different issues. By your logic, if a heterosexual man raped by another man, that would make him homosexual (in this causal sense).
I realize that I'm nitpicking, but it's an important distinction.
Then you are unaware of the rule against editing your own biography?
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It's not a rule; however, it is frowned upon to do so. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiogra
i think you mean http://www.thefatmanwalking.com/, which is about the cross-country trek.
timeshifting is illegal? *cough*fair use*cough*
if it has no mechanism for being false, it's pointless. it may or not be true, but there's no reason to discuss it.
> just so they can see Christopher Reeve ride a polo pony again.
i sincerely hope that you realize the magnitude of a spinal cord injury. let's see how fun life is when you can't control your own bodily functions.
Thank the FSM! Yohoho, indeed!
The problem is PageRank, not readers viewing ads. Typical SEO abuse...
might one say that coca-cola is using a hot coffee mod? don't tell jack thompson...
i really wanted ypiresiasintonismoukatapolemisisapatiz.eu, you know. (i wish i was kidding!)
the thing about tripe, of course, is that it's very good to feed to your dog, cat or other familiar. just don't try eating it yourself -- you may get sick and dizzy.
Oh, but you've been here for so long, Mr. 774046! Please don't leave us!
(Not that I should talk with my abysmal 6 figure UID. This type of post will usually cue #10000 or so making a comment about my UID, followed by #1000, ad infinitum...)
Perhaps they meant "Iman"ent. Like, you know, David Bowie's wife.
"...0101010101010000111010101012..."
You have a ternary state computer? I'm impressed.
Well, I'm using TeachText! So there!
You'd better hope so, otherwise you'll never get laid again.
Again? This is Slashdot. Remember?
What does the Media Access Control address have to do with this?
(Macintosh is abbreviated Mac, not MAC.)
B12 is naturally found from bacterial sources (i.e., animal liver, etc.) -- the main problem in getting it is that we are too clean. (Interestingly enough, people who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom will have less likelihood of developing a B-12 deficiency...)
And I'm pretty sure we can get Vitamin D by staying in the sun. So, from an evolutionary standpoint, it seems that vegetarianism (veganism, really) would be a primary method of food consumption.
You sit in front of a fan to move that encourage the evaporation (i.e., cooling process) of that hot sweat off your body by increasing the coefficient of conduction of air. Unless you have a sweaty fan, you should be moving the air away from it.